{"id":301,"date":"2008-03-03T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=301"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:47:23","slug":"monday-morning-potpourri-for-500-please-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/301","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning potpourri for $500, please, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;as I argued a few weeks ago, before the monoline crisis fully blew up in public, no business that requires a AAA rating in order to be viable deserves a AAA rating in the first place.  &#8211; Nouriel Roubini <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisco.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/01\/must-read-insolvency-not-just-illiquidity\/\">*<\/a> (N. Roubini:macroecon::J. Kunstler:energy policy &#8211; h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/atbozzo.blogspot.com\/\">Tom<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Friedrich von Blowhard has an interesting analysis of the ratings theater surrounding the monoline insurers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2blowhards.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/our_postmodern.html#004951\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>John Robb <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2008\/02\/henry-okah.html\">posts<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MEND\">MEND<\/a>, Henry Okah and 4GW in Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li>Reclaiming the <a href=\"http:\/\/speedbird.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/22\/against-go-bag-silliness\/\">concept of the go bag<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsoleteskills.com\/Skills\/Skills\">Obsolete skills<\/a>. Some are funny, some are (IMHO) just plain WRONG. Funny: <a class=\"wikilink\" href=\"http:\/\/obsoleteskills.com\/Skills\/SwappingFloppyDisks\">Swapping floppy disks<\/a>. Wrong: <a class=\"wikilink\" href=\"http:\/\/obsoleteskills.com\/Skills\/StartingACarThatHasAManualChoke\">Starting a car that has a manual choke<\/a> (my &#8217;85 LandCruiser had a manual choke &#8211; fabulous vehicle), <a class=\"wikilink\" href=\"http:\/\/obsoleteskills.com\/Skills\/MapReading\"> Map Reading<\/a> (tell the S&#038;R team that map reading is an obsolete skill).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An aside &#8211; I have this cranky-old-man theory that an entire science and math curriculum could be built around teaching\/learning\/doing celestial navigation. (sticks head out door &#8211; <em>&#8220;Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!&#8221;<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as I argued a few weeks ago, before the monoline crisis fully blew up in public, no business that requires a AAA rating in order to be viable deserves a AAA rating in the first place. &#8211; Nouriel Roubini * &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-random-stuff","category-type1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-4R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}